A Year in Reading: Zoë Ruiz

For my Year in Reading, I’m focusing on two books and the questions they raised.

1.’s is the last book he wrote, the book that he said almost killed him “and, in a way, did kill me.” He never did finish a book after , which took him six years to complete. is the book he was writing and not writing, the unfinished novel. Capote, did to France.” is said to lack compassion and centers his rich friends (referred to as “New York society” inin 2012 which I find amusing and revealing, as in it reveals ’selitism)and when they read the excerpts in—well, they quit being his friend. His outward response was: “What did they expect? I’m a writer, and I use everything. Did all those people think I was there just to entertain them?” But he was bothered, if not shaken, if not heartbroken by their rejection.